Brian, RE:The good news keeps getting better.
I certainly hope the price AMD is paying for that market share isn't too high, see the following links.
Proliferation of CPU pinouts pose form-factor and thermal challenges -- Notebook OEMs wrestle with mobile formats
Mark Carroll
"Sub-$1,000 notebooks will be really tough to cost-effectively produce," said the first marketing manager. "It certainly won't be an Intel solution. An Intel MMC CPU currently runs $710. An AMD K6-2 is about $125. Sure, the K6 needs core logic and L2 cache on the mainboard, but what's that-another $30? We see Socket 7 notebook solutions having a life well into 1999."
techweb.com
November 02, 1998, Issue: 739
Section: Clients & Servers
Packard Bell Selects AMD Chips For Laptops, Desktops
In another win for low-cost chip maker Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Packard Bell NEC Inc. last week said it will use AMD processors in a line of laptop and desktop systems. Scheduled to use the AMD processor, which costs about one-quarter the price of a comparable Intel chip, are the Packard Bell 955 and NEC Ready 9888. Both will use the 333-MHz AMD K6-2 processor. A notebook using the 300-MHz K6 chip will also ship. AMD had already inked OEM deals around its K6 processor with Compaq, Hewlett-Packard, IBM and Sony.
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techweb.com
November 02, 1998, Issue: 225
Section: News
Chip Vendor Makes Appearances in Weekend Newspaper Inserts for Several National Retailers -- AMD Works to Maintain High Profile With Ads
Aaron Ricadela
"AMD and Cyrix have to figure out how to stay on top without breaking the bank," he said. One challenge is that chip-makers must pay incentives to retailers and manufacturers.
Marcantonio compared AMD's situation with Corel's two years ago, when the software publisher led Microsoft in the office suite market for several months, but ran its coffers down in the process.
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